Breaking News: Darrell Hammond Says He Left ‘Most’ Episodes of ‘Saturday Night Live’ Thinking He’d ‘Disgraced’ Himself…see more

The comedian, who was a cast member on the NBC sketch show from 1995 to 2009 and famously impersonated Bill Clinton, revealed that he didn’t always share in the audience’s laughter after going home from work.

“Back when I was in SNL, it was a real up and down thing for me, because most of the time I left that show thinking that I … I’m going to say 50 percent of the time when I left that show, I thought I had disgraced myself,” Hammond said on the Monday, September 9, episode of the he recently saw a picture of him and former costar Tracy Morgan from their time on SNL, which brought back old memories.

He recalled struggling with SNL’s first turnaround to produce a new live episode every week.“The memories sort of came flooding back how, how dissatisfied I was with what it was I was doing,” he explained.

“And I think because of the degree of difficulty. I mean, you go to see a Vegas tribute act, someone doing an impression. It’s brilliant, and we love them, but they’ve worked years on it.

Now try doing it on Wednesday before a Saturday. Never done this before. Never done this one before.”